Stage 3: Engage in the Process – 5 Ways to Begin Your Dream Journey Right
Day 12: Engage in the Process Boldly
Day 13: Engage in the Process Everyday
Day 14: Engage in the Process Gladly
Day 15: Engage in the Process Intuitively
Day 16: Engage in the Process Now!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Stage 4: Allow the Obstacles to Strengthen You –
Reflections on Your Obstacles – Past, Present, & Future
Day 17: Allow Past Obstacles to Strengthen You – Part 1
Day 18: Allow Past Obstacles to Strengthen You – Part 2
Day 19: Allow Present Obstacles to Strengthen You – Part 1
Day 20: Allow Present Obstacles to Strengthen You – Part 2
Day 21: Allow Future Obstacles to Strengthen You – Part 1
Day 22: Allow Future Obstacles to Strengthen You – Part 2

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Stage 4 – Review

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Stage 5: Maintain Faith! – The 6 Benefits of Belief
Day 23: Maintain Faith for Blessing
Day 24: Maintain Faith for Encouragement
Day 25: Maintain Faith for Legacy
Day 26: Maintain Faith for Inspiration
Day 27: Maintain Faith for Energy
Day 28: Maintain Faith for Financing

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Stage 5 – Review

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Day 29: 8 Goals for Your Dream
Day 30: A Letter to Yourself

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Conclusion

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Let’s Stay Connected!

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You have a dream! Within you there is a purpose, an assignment
and a specific work that you were created to accomplish in your lifetime!
You have a yearning to do something great with your life, and that desire can
be fulfilled as you courageously allow yourself to Dare to Dream!
The disheartening reality is, it is very likely that the majority of
people you know are not pursuing their dreams. If you live in a city anything
like mine, you are surrounded by individuals whose lives are consumed by
work that gives them very little satisfaction and fulfillment. If the people
you know are anything like the people I know, they are obsessed by the idea
of “the weekend” and they do everything in their power to make it to Friday
at 5pm! This environment of mediocrity is not conducive to dreaming big!
The purpose of this book, then, is to prevent you from living a
similar life of “quiet desperation” and instead, help you to discover, develop
and display the dream that is your destiny! It is only in completing that which
you were originally created for that you can experience true satisfaction and
success.
With that said, this book is designed to, over the next 30 days,
provide the space where you can answer questions that will help you to
navigate through the following “5 Stages of Dream Fulfillment:”
Stage 1: Discover Your Burden
Stage 2: Receive a Vision
Stage 3: Engage in the Process
Stage 4: Allow the Obstacles to Strengthen You
Stage 5: Maintain Faith!
I encourage you to work through the questions in this book one day
at a time, but if you’re inclined to work through the book at a faster pace,
please feel free to do so!
So without any further preliminaries, let’s jump right in to the first
stage of dream fulfillment…Discover Your Burden!
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STAGE ONE

Discover
Your Burden

Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
Ovid

If it brings you down...YOU can turn it around!
Edward Paz

DAY 1

DAY 2

Your Burden Bothers You.

Your Burden Undermines Your Values.

Your frustration may be your allocation.
T.D. Jakes

A God-ordained vision will eventually feel like a moral imperative.
Andy Stanley

Key Question

Key Question

What community/world issues frustrate, disturb or sadden you?

What community/world issues are contradictory to your ideals?

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Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I must uphold my ideals,
for perhaps the time will come
when I shall be able to carry them out.
Anne Frank

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DAY 3

DAY 4

Your Burden Requires Your Response.

Your Burden Deploys Your Creativity.

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Earl Nightingale

Key Question

Key Question

What community/world issues do you feel you
must do something about?

What community/world issues have you began
thinking of creative solutions for?

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“Sometimes I would like to ask God why He allows poverty,
suffering, and injustice when He could do something about it.”
“Well, why don’t you ask Him?”
“Because I’m afraid He would ask me the same question.”
Anonymous

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of
creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King Jr.

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DAY 5

DAY 6

Your Burden Enlarges Your Compassion.

Your Burden Never Goes Away.

Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
Edmund Burke

Purpose is permanent.
Myles Munroe

Key Question

Key Question

What community/world issues do you have
the greatest degree of sympathy for?

What community/world issues could you not neglect doing
something about, even if you tried?

Boldy
Everyday
Gladly
Intuitively
Now
Now that I have committed to engaging in the process of
discovering, developing, and displaying my dream, here are 5
specific things do I want to accomplish over next 30 days to
make my dream a reality…

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“Now” is the operative word.
Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the
hour when you could actually be doing your dream.
You don't need endless time and perfect conditions.
Do it now. Do it today.
Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
Barbara Sher
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We ought not to look back,
unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors
and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience.
George Washington

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past,
even though some are painful. I don't understand people who
hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make
you the person you are now.
Sophia Loren

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DAY 19

DAY 20

Allow Present Obstacles to Strengthen You.

Allow Present Obstacles to Strengthen You.

Part 1

Part 2

There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli

To turn an obstacle to one's advantage
is a great step towards victory.
French Proverb

Key Question
What are 3 obstacles/ circumstances that you are currently
facing that are preparing you to make your dream a reality?

Key Question
What are 2 more obstacles/circumstances that you are currently
facing that are preparing you to make your dream a reality?

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the
weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually
encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed.
They won because they refused to become
discouraged by their defeats.
B.C. Forbes

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DAY 21

DAY 22

Allow Future Obstacles to Strengthen You.

Allow Future Obstacles to Strengthen You.

Part 1

Part 2

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents,
which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Horace

When everything seems to be going against you, remember
that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford

Key Question

Key Question

What are 3 obstacles/circumstances that you can foresee
getting in the way of you making your dream a reality?

What are 2 more obstacles/circumstances that you can foresee
getting in the way of you making your dream a reality?

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Obstacles don't have to stop you.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles,
have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens,
but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Walt Disney

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STAGE 4 – REVIEW

STAGE FIVE

Allow the Obstacles to Strengthen You.
Allow…
Present Obstacles to Strengthen You
Past Obstacles to Strengthen You
Future Obstacles to Strengthen You

Upon reflecting upon my past, present, and future obstacles,
I realize that obstacles are beneficial to me for the following
reasons…

When you have come to the edge of all light that you know
and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown,
Faith is knowing one of two things will happen:
There will be something solid to stand on
or you will be taught to fly.
Patrick Overton

Key Question
Key Question
What are 7 blessings you look forward to receiving
as you pursue the fulfillment of your dream?

What are 7 sources of encouragement you look forward to
receiving from as you pursue the fulfillment of your dream?

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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work,
some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords
a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
John Burroughs

One word or a pleasing smile is often enough
to raise up a saddened and wounded soul.
Therese of Lisieux

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DAY 25

DAY 26

Maintain Faith for Legacy.

Maintain Faith for Inspiration.

The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of
meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.
Stephen Covey

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly
and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.
Winston Churchill

Key Question

Key Question

How do you want the fulfillment of your dream
to continue on even after your life is over?

What are 7 sources that you that you look forward to receiving
inspiration from as you pursue the fulfillment your dream?

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel
strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.
Don't make money your goal.
Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so
well that people can't take their eyes off you.
Maya Angelou

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STAGE 5 – REVIEW

DAY 29

Maintain Faith!

8 Goals for Your Dream

Maintain Faith for…

The reason why most people face the future with apprehension
instead of anticipation is because they don’t have it well designed.
Jim Rohn

Blessing
Encouragement
Legacy
Inspiration
Energy
Funding

Key Question
What are the benchmarks/goals that you would like to see take
place during the coming years of your dream journey?
1 Year Goals

A Letter to Yourself
Key Question
If you could write yourself a letter that you could refer back to
when your dream journey gets difficult, what would you write?

CONCLUSION
If you have reached the end of this book having written down your
answers to the questions given…Congratulations! You are well on your way
to making your dream a reality! The patience and perseverance that it took
to thoughtfully work through the questions posed will be the same patience
and perseverance that will lead you to the fulfillment of your dream!
In conclusion, I want to leave you with a few action steps for you to
take that will help you to maximize the concepts outlined in this book:

Use this booklet as a resource to keep you inspired when times get
tough, and allow if to be a reminder to you of why you started out on you
dream journey in the first place!

Sincerely,

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Action Step #2: Focus on the daily disciplines.
Your level of commitment to the five habits you identified in Day 13
will have a greater impact on your dream becoming a reality than anything
else! Engage in the process everyday!
Action Step #3: Consume content DAILY to inspire your dream.
The more content you can consume to inspire your dream, the less
likely you will be to quit when the obstacles seem too high to surmount!
I feel so passionately about this, that I have created a website that I
am a confident will one day have the most comprehensive library of
resources to inspire your dream! On the site you can find inspiration through
quotes, books, articles, videos, biographies, movie clips, poems, worksheets
and more! Check it out at www.edwardpaz.com.
Action Step #4: E-Mail me your dream!
In the “Stage Two – Review” you were asked to write out, to the
best of your ability, the vision of your dream fulfilled. If you would e-mail me
your vision to edwardjpaz@gmail.com, I would love to personally encourage
you in your dream!
Your dream will come to pass! The road will be long and hard, but
as you remain faithful to the process, you can be sure that an unspeakable
joy awaits you! Congratulations in advance for the positive impact you will
have on others as a result of seeing your dream through to its completion!
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